IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 1630: Cultural Memory in Early England: Continuities and Change in Cultural Contact Events

Sponsor:	Flinders University
Organiser:	Erin Sebo, Department of English, Creative Writing & Australian Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide
Moderator/Chair:	Daniel Anlezark, Medieval & Early Modern Centre, University of Sydney
Paper 1630-a	Cultural Memory in the Diaspora: The Development of the Ship Burial (Language: English) Erin Sebo, Department of English, Creative Writing & Australian Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Maritime and Naval Studies, Mentalities, Religious Life
Paper 1630-b	Memorialising and Anonymising Anglo-Saxon Women (Language: English) Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Religious Life
Paper 1630-c	Memory across the Longue Durée: Early Anglo-Saxon Landholdings in 13th-Century Fenland (Language: English) Susan Oosthuizen, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - Rural, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities
Abstract	This panel takes an interdisciplinary approach to cultural memory in the continuities and change across three kinds of cultural contact event: the 5th-century Adventus Saxonum, the conversion to Christianity, and the Norman Invasion, and explores the nature and impact of these events on different aspects of society and culture, especially as it relates to public display, identity, power, and rights.